Oh. So that's what this is about. As the disguised Nephele releases them, Cam stumbles back, then drops to the ground when she flees. They should probably stay on their feet, just in case she comes back, but they're pretty much helpless anyway. Not much they're going to do in a fight against someone with a chakram that burns their blood (well, their fluid, anyway).
"Ow," they mutter, sitting on the ground -- shaking with pain -- while they watch pearly fluid leak from their arm. Oh, shit, they should probably do something about that, right? Can Ascended bleed to death? After a couple tries, they tear some fabric from the hem of their shirt and clumsily tie it around their arm, like they would if they were still human. Great, ruined a perfectly good shirt. And a perfectly good arm.
They turn over Nephele's words while they work, and then while they sit there and wait for the pain to subside enough for them to leave. You burn because you are a monster. You are not even human. Intellectually, Cam knows she's wrong, knows that her words come from her own hate and not anything Cam has done wrong. But it still makes them feel like shit, like a pit has opened in their stomach. They'd known, rationally, that people hated the Ascended, but it's never been made so clear to them before. It's never been directed at them before.
Well, now they're really part of the family, huh?
- FIN
"Ow," they mutter, sitting on the ground -- shaking with pain -- while they watch pearly fluid leak from their arm. Oh, shit, they should probably do something about that, right? Can Ascended bleed to death? After a couple tries, they tear some fabric from the hem of their shirt and clumsily tie it around their arm, like they would if they were still human. Great, ruined a perfectly good shirt. And a perfectly good arm.
They turn over Nephele's words while they work, and then while they sit there and wait for the pain to subside enough for them to leave. You burn because you are a monster. You are not even human. Intellectually, Cam knows she's wrong, knows that her words come from her own hate and not anything Cam has done wrong. But it still makes them feel like shit, like a pit has opened in their stomach. They'd known, rationally, that people hated the Ascended, but it's never been made so clear to them before. It's never been directed at them before.
Well, now they're really part of the family, huh?
- FIN
cameron ?
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